Senior Software Development Engineer; SDE

GDI Sovereign Cloud is a team of smart, motivated, and diverse people that are focused on bringing the world’s most important work to our government customers. We build and operate our government, classified, and sovereign cloud regions to be reliable and high-performance, just like our public cloud. Our customers and their mission are the center of what we do. We strive to improve our knowledge of the challenges our customers face which we use to enhance our cloud capabilities and work together to deliver their mission.

The Automation for Sovereign Cloud (ASC) team is a Sec Dev Ops  Team focused specifically on providing automated solution and integrations for Sovereign Realms. Our team leverages Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) best practices to develop scalable, secure, and reliable solutions. Sov Realms have unique challenges which require unique solutions to provide a seamless customer interaction between commercial and other realms. This is where our team thrives, providing the connective tissues and purpose-built solutions.

We are seeking a Software Development Engineer (SDE) to join ASC team within the Oracle Government Defense Intelligence (GDI) division.

Our Senior engineers are technical leaders in our organization. They work independently and provide technical leadership to their organizations SDEs as well as with the architects across the commercial cloud. This is a high-visibility role that will impact all aspects of the technical patterns for operating the cloud. You must be experienced at developing and operating high-scale services, with an understanding of how to make cloud-scale services resilient, secure, and maintainable.

The ideal candidate will be technically strong, have a passion for mentoring junior engineers as well as collaborating with the most senior architects; someone who knows how to balance speed and quality with iterative and incremental improvements. You will help define and enforce standards and best practices for software development within OCI.

Your experience integrating complex, large-scale tooling into US Government technology ecosystems will fast-track operational efficiencies. You understand operational excellence and possess the know-how to instill a culture of ownership within your organization. You are a skilled communicator — an effective champion with OCI service teams for integration and operational optimization of solutions into the Oracle National Security Realms (ONSR) environment. Your designs and technical contributions will influence the profitability and scalability of OCI’s government cloud solutions.

• Architect and Design :
  Lead the design and architecture of microservices that support distributed systems, handling data egress and integration between multiple realms. Drives operational readiness & excellence of their features & subsystems.
• Build Distributed Systems :
  Develop and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure distributed systems to support real-time data processing for analytics platforms.
• Coding :
  Leverages industry best practices to write correct, secure, maintainable, robust code and appropriate tests. Drives design of their features & subsystems.
• Data Pipeline Optimization :
  Create efficient and resilient data egress pipelines, ensuring seamless data flow and aggregation across OCI realms.
• Collaboration :
  Work closely with cross-functional teams, including data engineers, product managers, and Dev Ops teams, to ensure alignment with business goals and infrastructure needs.
• Problem Solving :
  Identify bottlenecks, optimize performance, and troubleshoot issues within distributed systems and data flows.
• Mentorship and Leadership :
  Operating independently, you mentor junior engineers, promoting best practices in software engineering, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
• Operations :
  Trusted to serve as Tier2 or specialized escalation point for operations events. Leads deep dives into events during calls and in support of root cause analysis (CAPA). Serves as primary point of contact for resolving complex operations issues. Develops new metrics and dashboards to improve situational awareness. Leads…